Calendar – Old Church Theatre

Open Mic

Nov 30 @ 5:00 PM

Come join us for Open Mic Wednesdays at the Old Church Theatre.

You can enjoy a fun night seeing local performers and if you want to perform sign up with our host Rick Zimmerman.

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Pub Night with Gav Session

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Dec 3 @ 6:00 PM

Join us at the Tipsy Vicar on Saturday December 3rd for our introductory event of the Christmas season featuring local musician Gav Session. Enjoy your favourite beverage and some pub food while Gav performs holiday classics and rare gems from his vast musical repertoire.

Bring along your favourite games and friends or just show up and join in the fun as we kick off the holidays!

This pub night is admission by donation with the proceeds to the artist. Hope to see you there.

We serve a changing menu of food from week to week and you can check our menu before you come to see what’s on!

Open Mic

Dec 7 @ 5:00 PM

Come join us for Open Mic Wednesdays at the Old Church Theatre.

You can enjoy a fun night seeing local performers and if you want to perform sign up with our host Rick Zimmerman.

Dec

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2022

Driftwood Theatre presents Play in a Pub: William Shakespeare’s A Christmas

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Dec 10 @ 7:30 PM

SOLD OUT

What the Dickens?! For the first time ever, Driftwood Theatre brings their holiday Play in a Pub series to The Old Church Theatre with a Christmas classic of Shakespearian proportions. William Shakespeare’s A Christmas Carol will be performed December 10, 2022. With appearances by characters from Shakespeare’s most popular plays, this version of A Christmas Carol is an inventive, hilarious, and touching holiday story for the whole family, inspired by the combined genius of Charles Dickens and William Shakespeare.

When miserly theatre owner Ebenezer Scrooge puts the ‘humbug’ in Christmas, he’s transported on a redemptive journey to save his very soul. Haunted by the spirits of Christmas past (Puck), present (Falstaff) and future (Hamlet’s dad), Scrooge learns to appreciate the true spirit of the holiday season as only Shakespeare can imagine.

Carrying on Driftwood’s fine tradition of informal readings of plays over a pint, William Shakespeare’s A Christmas Carol is a jolly, interactive holiday mash-up as audience members join Driftwood Theatre’s professional performers in reading, singing, and celebrating a holiday masterpiece.

Get in on the action. At Play in a Pub audience participation is the name of the game. Audience members take the stage in a variety of walk-on roles (including Tiny Tim, Mercutio and Martha Cratchit) by bidding on the Bah the Bah Humbug Live Auction. And you can bet there’ll be some participatory Christmas caroling along the way.

William Shakespeare’s A Christmas Carol comes from the creative mind of Ian Doescher, author of the equally mind-blowing William Shakespeare’s Star Wars series, William Shakespeare’s Get Thee Back to the Future and William Shakespeare’s Avengers The Complete Works.

Driftwood Theatre is Ontario’s leading outdoor, summer theatre company, on the road with its award-winning Bard’s Bus Tour for over 25 years, reaching over 46 communities and 100,000 people across Ontario. We believe in good people sharing great stories. Driftwood Theatre is generously supported by the Ontario Arts Council. Play in a Pub is a FUN-raising event in support of Driftwood Theatre’s annual summer Bard’s Bus Tour.

Tony Vani Sunday Blues

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Dec 11 @ 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM

The Old Church Theatre is pleased to announce that Tony Vani will be joining us every second Sunday of the month for our Second Sunday Service of Blues. Tony has entertained us over the years as a solo performer, with his band and as a duo with Kenny Pauze.

A long time friend of the ‘Old Church’, Tony welcomes his friends and many fans to this Second Sunday event. We aim to start at 2:00 pm for a fun afternoon of blues and any other of Tony’s favourite selections to help us all get through the winter. There will be food, beverages and music. Who could ask for more?

100% of your Donations-at-the-Door go to the performer!

Open Mic

Dec 14 @ 5:00 PM

Come join us for Open Mic Wednesdays at the Old Church Theatre.

You can enjoy a fun night seeing local performers and if you want to perform sign up with our host Rick Zimmerman.

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2022

A Christmas Story – the movie

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Dec 17 @ 7:30 PM

On December 17 we’ll be presenting the movie comedy, A Christmas Story. You’ll learn why the greatest gift of all is a Red Ryder Range BB gun, and of course, the origin of the famous Leg Lamp. St. Catharines Ontario and a Toronto soundstage are the actual locations for the story line’s purported setting of Cleveland, Ohio. There’s even a Canadian cast member.

Please bring an item for the food bank in lieu of admission, but to ensure a seat book your tickets.

Feel free to bring your own movie snacks 🙂

RESERVATIONS

**We are licensed through Criterion Pictures to show films to the public.**

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Roy Bonisteel’s Christmas Story

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Dec 21 @ 12:00 PM

Well it’s almost that time of year to gather the family around the old RCA and listen to a timeless Christmas classic. Maybe the ancient wireless is gone but you can still hear our favourite holiday tale composed and read by Roy Bonisteel.

It’s a story that harks back to a simpler time, when the delivery of firewood just before Christmas was all that stood between freezing or surviving. Throw in a snowstorm, a dancing dog and two brothers who want to do the right thing and you have a recipe for everything you need to know about the Christmas spirit. This story happened many years ago right here in the Quinte region but the theme and the lesson is as constant as the north star.

Please enjoy this Old Church classic with friends and loved ones as we wind up our Seasonal Storytelling Series.

Open Mic

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Dec 21 @ 5:00 PM

Come join us for Open Mic Wednesdays at the Old Church Theatre.

You can enjoy a fun night seeing local performers and if you want to perform sign up with our host Rick Zimmerman.